Barry Elkington’s website* for Professor Shibusawa’s Stories to Live By course presents the history of nuclear weapons production in the American Southwest. Pairing insightful prose with thought-provoking videos, Elkington draws out subtle–and some unsubtle–themes in the public discourse around nuclear weapons testing and production. The essays on each page shed light on these themes, which range from the American…
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From the Archives: Walmart Exposé
In this documentary-style final project from fall 2012, Stoni Tomson and Sharina Gordon tell the story of how Walmart, a company considered by many in the mainstream media to be the exemplar of the American entrepreneurial spirit, in fact relies upon exploiting labor at home and abroad for its success. Walmart not only takes advantage of unequal…